Mop-wringer.



o. STBLLBRKL E. N. CLARK.

` MOP WRINGER. vAPPLIGATION FILED JAN.17, 1912.

1,044, 101 Ptentea Nov. 12,1Q12.v

CHARLES STELLER AND EDDY N. CLARK, OF SEATTLE, WASHNGTON.

Mor-wniNGE-R.

1 ,orador Application filed January 17, 1912. SerialNo. 671,771.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

` Patented Nov. 12, 1912.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that we, CHARLES Sl'rnnmn and EDDY N. CLARK, citizens of the United States, residingat Seattle, in the countypf King and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mop-iVi-ingers, of which the following is a specification. Y

Our invention relates to that class of mopwringers which are employed with and attached to scrubbing pails. u l

The object of the invention is the improvement in devices of this character whereby .a mop may be more thoroughly. and expeditiously dried -while safeguarding the mop yarns or cloth from being torn' by becoming entangled about the roller axles of the wringer.

lThe invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a pail provided with the present invention. Fig. 2 is a plan. view thereof. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section of the same. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal vertical section, andA showing the wringer in use. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary perspectiveview to illustrate principally the 4manner of connecting the movable rollers to the operating lever. i

The. vreference numeral 1 designates a scrubbing-pail provided with a bailQ and having at the rear and near its bottom a stirrup-piece 3, as usual. Provided `1nteriorly of the pail and adjacent to its top is' a pair of plates 4 whose. central portions.

are arranged parallel to each other and their y I extremities 5 fitted against the inner periphery lof the pail whereby the plates are secured thereto,I as by rivets 6. Disposed -one above the other, and in spaced relations,

is a air of transversely arranged rollers 7 and whose axles 8 are journaledpin holes provided in the plates 4 and near the front guide slots11 and 11 ends there?.

9 and 9 are a pair of rollers having axles 10 and 10. extending respectively through provided in the plates and journaled in yolzcs 12. Intermediate of the journal bearings for axles 10 and 10', each yoke is pivotall connected by a pin 13 with a branch 14 o an angle lever which 'is fulcrumed tostuds 15 projecting from opposite sides of the pail and in proximity to its bottom. Vlorwardly from such fulcrum studs the other arm 14 of the lever is of a circular form of the. pail.

16 is a foot piece advantageously provided on the arm 14 and wherewith the lever is most conveniently vactuated by the operators foot to overcome the power .of a helical to elxtend about the front spring- 17,Fig. 1. The guide slots l1 and 'i 11 are formed in their'pl'ates to be concentric or nearly so with respect to the fulcrum of said lever. All of the aforesaid rollers are of lengths tobe slightly `less than the distance between the opposing faces 4 of the plates 4 and to ward 0E the yarn or strands of afmop froml entering the interstices between the various rollers and the plates we `provide ilanges 18 and 18 along the upper and loweredges of theplates.' I

vThe flanges prot-rude inwardly and are desirably formed to be concentric to the axis of the lever fulcrum. As shown in Figs. 3

and 5, a leaf spring. 2041s desirably interposed between each of the yokes 12 and an ear 14 provided on the associated branch of said lever. The purpose of these springs is to yieldingly maintain the yokes in substantially upright positions subject, however, tothe constraining eil'ect of the guideslots 11 and 11 which accommodates the axles of the movable rollers 9 and 9 and guide the latter to present thernto the comlplinentary rollers 7 and 7 in the"reiative positions in which they are shown in Fig..4`.

In operating the invention, the mop M is put into the water contained inthe pail and between the pairs of rnllers when the same are separated. The operator then pushes down with his foot upon the attachment 16 to cause the lever to be swung to carry rollers 9 and 9 against the mop and while the pail is being held by tlie operators other foot pressing upon stirrup- 3. When the rollers 9, 9 encotnter the mop the arms of the springs 20, which normally support the yokes 12 against tilting, will allow the yokes to yield for one or the other of the referred to rollers to accommodate anknots or other unevenness in the mop as the latter is drawn upwardly vto squeeze the water therefrom through power exerted by the operators foot in manipulating the lever.

1. The combination with a pail having with guide-slots, and a pair of rollers 'having their axles journaled in said plates, of aA .plates rigidly secured thereto and provided' second pair of rollers. having their axles extend through the respective guide slots, an angle lever ulcrumed to studs provided on the pail, and yokes ings for the axles 'ofthe last nanied rollers and pivotally connected intermediate of such journal bearings to branches of said lever.

2. The combination with a pail having plates rigidly secured thereto and provided with guide-slots, and a pair of rollers having their axles journaled in .said plates, of a second pair of rollers having their axles extend through the respective guide slots, an angle lever`fulcrumedto studs provided Copies of this patent may be obtained 'for ve cents each, by addressin Washington, I). C.

affording journal tbearvon the pail, yokes alfordingjournal bearings' 15 r the axles of the last named rollers and pivotally connected intermediate of such l journal bearings to branches of said lever.

and tending positions.

January '1912.

a sprngfor each of said yokes and to maintain the latter in upright 20 SignedatSeattle, Wn., this 2nd day of CHARLES STELLER. EDDY N. CLARK. Witnesses:

Pmnkn BARNES, E. PETERSON.

g 'the Commissioner of Patents, 

